Niceneadj.n.
/ˌnʌɪˈsiːn/, /ˈnʌɪˌsiːn/, U.S. /ˈnaɪˌsin/, /ˌnaɪˈsin/ A. adj.
1. Nicene Council n. either of two ecclesiastical Councils held at Nicaea, the first in a.d. 325 for the purpose of settling the Arian controversy, and the second in a.d. 787 to consider the question of images. Formerly also † Council Nicene.
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Nicene Council?a1475
OE tr. Chrodegang of Metz Regula Canonicorum (Corpus Cambr. 191) Pref. 163 Þæra þreo hundred and eahtatyne fædra þe wæron gesamnode on þam sinoðe þe we nicena nemnað.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 105 He was i-martired under Dacianus, þe iuge, by doom of the counsaile of Nicene.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 119 Silvester the secunde..kepede the firste grete cownsayle of Nicene.]
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 105 (MED) The legende of whom is hade amonge scriptures apocriphate by the decrete of þe cownesayle Nicene.
1526 Pylgrimage of Perfection (de Worde) f. 192v In the Crede of Nycene counsyle.
1564 Briefe Exam. ****j Certayne sectaries layde to the Fathers charge of Nicæne counsell, that they tooke an order..for keping Easter day.
1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica 425 Three hundred eighteene Byshops now applide The Nycene Counsell.
1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. ii. ii. 350 As we learn from the acts of the second Nicene Council.
a1729 E. Taylor Metrical Hist. Christianity (1962) 67 The Nicene Counsill then was summoned By Constantine this Hydra to behead.
1744 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 652/1 The Nicene Council in fixing the time of Easter in the 1st place following the Julian year without correction.
1848 J. H. Newman Loss & Gain ii. vii. 187 An Oxford man, some ten years since was going to publish a history of the Nicene Council.
1884 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. 53/1 In opposition to this error, the first Nicene Council defined [etc.].
1963 T. Ware Orthodox Church ii. 27 It was the duty of the Nicene Council to elaborate the content of that faith.
1997 Renaissance Q. 50 101 There must have been some public discussion of how the Nicene Council had affected holy nomenclature.
2. Nicene Creed n. either of two formal statements of Christian belief; (a) that drawn up by the first Nicene Council in a.d. 325 (rare); (b) a longer formula endorsed by the first Council of Constantinople in a.d. 381, and in regular use in Eucharistic worship.
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Nicene Creed1553
1553 Articles agreed vpon in Conuocacion in Short Catechisme f. lxxi The thre Credes, Nicene crede Anathasius Crede, and that which is commonly called the Apostles Crede, ought throughly to be receiued.
1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. ii. i. §i. 83 Beinge learned, & hauinge traulled through the Ancient Writers, you muste needes haue seene..the Nicene Creede.
?1573 H. Cheke tr. F. Negri Freewyl iii. iii. 108 Some thynke Pope Damasus, at the request of this Hieronimus aboue named, added the Nicene Crede.
1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. sig. ¶.ivv Excellent learned men, who wrote the Creede commonly called the Nicene Creede.
1602 J. Rhodes Answere Romish Rime sig. C3 You Protestants doe daily read, in Nicen and Apostles Creed, The Church of God must holy bee.
1692 R. Ames Jacobite Conventicle 13 Any Prayer, Which in the Liturgy we read, From the Lord's Prayer to Nicene Creed.
1756 E. Perronet Mitre 108 (note) Even the Nicene creed,..however orthodox it is esteemed, is really the reverse.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxvii. 17 He..offered that Arian prelate the hard alternative of subscribing the Nicene creed, or of instantly resigning..the cathedral.
1834 Penny Cycl. II. 340/2 A confession of faith, which seemed to be in unison with the Nicene Creed.
1884 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. 254/2 A creed..almost precisely identical with what we are accustomed to call the Nicene Creed.
1927 Amer. Hist. Rev. 32 256 The insertion of the filioque into the Nicene Creed.
1977 Church Observer Winter 4 The explicit language of the Nicene Creed stands over against them. Jesus Christ is ‘One Lord’.
3. Connected with, originating from, or related to either of the Nicene Councils or their doctrines.
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Nicene1597
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xlii. 83 They alwayes professed loue and zeale to the Nicene faith.
1657 N. Billingsley Brachy-martyrologia 57 The Emperour, at his approaching death, Griev'd for his changing of the Nicene faith.
1672 T. Godden Catholicks No Idolaters 124 Dr. St. perhaps will rank them for this..with the Nicen Fathers.
1719 D. Waterland Vindic. Christ's Divinity 210 The Nicene Fathers explain their meaning, both in the Creed it self, and in the Anathemas annex'd to it.
1782 W. Cowper Hope in Poems 161 By Athanasian nonsense or Nicene.
1801 A. Ranken Hist. France I. ii. ii. 195 The Nicene Christians were therefore most likely to prevail.
1884 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. 53/1 From which the whole of the Nicene definition follows by logical consequence.
1943 Anglican Theol. Rev. 25 304 (title) The Nicene faith and the legislation of the early Byzantine emperors.
1995 Church Times 16 June 14/3 The election of Ambrose as Bishop of Milan..and the final triumph of a Nicene Catholicism in north Italy.
B. n.
= Nicenian n.
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Nicenian1664
Nicaean1684
Nicenist1854
Nicene1882
1882 Athenæum 9 Sept. 335/2 He has to treat of Arians, Semi-arians, Nicenes, Anomœans, Homœans,..and others.
1999 Boston Globe (Nexis) 5 Sept. l3 The emperor ruled in favor of the Athanasians, who thenceforth were known as the Nicenes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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